Visual Motor Skills

Visual Motor Skills are necessary for just about everything we do in life, at least if our hands are involved. Visual Motor simply refers to tasks that require work from two body parts and functions:

Our eyes and vision

Our hands and fine motor dexterity

Each of these areas have many skill sets that need to develop. Then, the skills need to be combined in a coordinated way. The eyes usually guide the hands. Sometimes we use our hands to help keep our eyes rooted to a specific target (e.g. pointing at a tennis ball).